Coin Operated Group

A heat gun is very usefull on the segments or i suppose a hiar dryer whold do the same job. Heat the segment and the lable will peel off easly. Careful though if the sement gets too hot it will be damaged with loads of tiny cracks in them. After this i use a product called strip wax which is a solve...

12 years ago whilst i was setting up my company i met up with the Bitesize Vending company in Bournmouth or Hastings? cant quite remember. The bloke i met had a beard and he was selling a bulk sweets franchise.


Regards Brian

Hi Barbara Yep all is good my end i will send you an email soon with the stats of how your sites have performed over the last 2 and half years since we started. i was surprised how many you got me i kinda forgot lol. There was 65 in total and there is about 30 still going ok. My current spring proje...

Site finding for A grade sites is very difficult at the moment. 95% of them have already been taken. Two years ago i came up with a plan to site some grade B sites shall we call them. i discussed this with Barbara and she got me 20 plus sites for me in my area which is quite bulit up and saturated. ...

Right problem solved and ive been a muppet lol. i didnt take off the tape over the metal pin that stops you turning the barrel too quickly. Big thanks to tubz vending brands who picked it up on here and rang me this morning. Palbo on some of the very old Chinese metal barrels the cast can break on t...

I have a few chinese sweet towers with broken barrels. the original tubz vending machines not the snack a can ribbed machines. I have swapped the knackered barrels for the new plastic barrels

Hi Folks. i have just brought my first few plastic barrels for my sweet towers. I have changed a couple over but im not happy with there performace. If i turn the coin mech quickly often the tub of sweets doesn't drop. Also happens with capsules with the adaptation in.

Any pointers

Regards Brian

if it is a flat key would ram a substantial flat screwdriver into the lock and twist, No need to drill the lock i have found.

Regards Brian

Free vends are normally caused by the elbow thinkiymajig on the right side or the mech as you look at it from behind dislodging. This means the mech can turn backwards. On the main plate the hole it sits in wears out a bit i have been tapping the edges of this hole down a bit with a hammer and a met...

IF we are talking about the same machines ???? Get a file in the back of the machine and file upwards and reduce the plastic bit that covers the mech leaver. Use a long handled file with plenty of leverage on it. Insistently the snack a can chinese machine once the mech is off i cut the plastic bit ...